Monterey Pop Sat, Jun 17 | 7:30pm | DGT
Banner” is immortalized here, Wadleigh’s film was a box office smash and remains the definitive record of some of the most iconic artists of the '60s. DIRECTED BY: Michael Wadleigh. WITH: Joe Cocker; Country Joe & The Fish; Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young; Arlo Guthrie. 1970/1994. 224 min. USA. Color. English. DCP.
Mounted by producer Lou Adler and songwriter-performer John Phillips (The Mamas and the Papas), 1967’s Monterey International Pop Festival was the first major festival of the rock-and-roll era. Immortalized by the roaming camera of D. A. Pennebaker and crew, which included the likes of Albert Maysles and Richard Leacock, the festival inspired a new era of live music. The film captures the hushed— Simon and Garfunkel—the explosive—Pete Townshend smashing his Stratocaster—and plenty in-between, reveling in the styles and textures of the groovy audience as much as the light show–drenched performers. Bonus: relative newcomers Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix, and Ravi Shankar all become legends before your eyes. DIRECTED BY: D. A. Pennebaker. WITH: Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Otis Redding, The Mamas and the Papas. 1968. 79 min. USA. Color. English. 4K DCP.
The Beatles: Get Back - The Rooftop Concert Fri, Jun 30 | 7:30pm | DGT
Oscar-winning director Peter Jackson’s epic project delved into the plentiful footage captured by director Michael Lindsay-Hogg of the Fab Four at work and play as they try to write and record what will become the album Let It Be . A key moment in this creative process has now been reconstructed by Jackson in its entirety: the Beatles’ iconic lunch hour performance atop the Apple building on Savile Row, on January 30, 1969. Drawing from Lindsay-Hogg’s extensive footage of the event and surrounding activities, Jackson has created a transportive, real-time view of John, Paul, George, and Ringo’s last live performance as a group. DIRECTED BY: Peter Jackson. WITH: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr. 1970/2022. 60 min. USA. Color. English. DCP.
SUMMER OF SOUL (...OR, WHEN THE REVOLUTION COULD NOT BE TELEVISED) (2021)
Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) Fri, Jun 23 | 7:30pm | DGT
Author, musician, DJ, and cultural icon Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson makes his directorial debut with this Oscar- winning documentary that revisits The Harlem Cultural Festival of 1969. Across six summer weeks, a staggering array of Black musical talent performed to packed audiences just a hundred miles south of Woodstock. However, its impact was eclipsed, in part because unlike Woodstock, footage of The Harlem Festival was largely unseen, until now. Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Sly & The Family Stone, Gladys Knight & The Pips, B.B. King, and others tear the roof off as contemporary interviews and snapshots of the cultural moment around the festival round out this vibrant celebration of Black music and culture. DIRECTED BY: Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson. WITH: Dorinda Drake, Barbara Bland-Acosta, Darryl Lewis, Ethel Beatty. 2021. 118 min. USA. Color. English. Rated PG-13. DCP. Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace and Music (Director’s Cut) Sat, Jun 24 | 7:30pm | DGT Arguably the definitive “summer festival,” 1969’s Woodstock Music and Art Festival is captured in all its rain-smeared, mud-drenched glory by Michael Wadleigh and crew—including film editor Thelma Schoonmaker, and recordist Larry Johnson and music mixer Dan Wallin (Oscar nominees for their work)—in this epic Academy Award– winning documentary. With unforgettable performances by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young; Ritchie Havens; Joe Cocker; Jefferson Airplane; Santana; Janis Joplin; and, of course, Jimi Hendrix, whose ragged version of “The Star-Spangled
AMAZING GRACE (2018)
Amazing Grace Sat, Jul 1 | 4pm | TMT
Shot in Los Angeles’s New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in the winter of 1972, the Queen of Soul’s breathtaking performance remained unseen for nearly fifty years, though the record would become the best-selling gospel album of all time. Shooting without the clapperboards that would seamlessly sync the soundtrack to the twenty hours of 16mm footage in the edit, the film’s original director, Sydney Pollack, abandoned the project, leaving it untouched for over four decades. Thanks to digital technologies, the sound and image finally came together for this stirring film, released to the public in 2018, three months after Franklin’s passing. REALIZED AND PRODUCED BY: Alan Elliott. WITH: Aretha Franklin, James Cleveland, Alexander Hamilton, Cornell Dupree. 2018. 89 min. USA. Color. English. Rated G. DCP.
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